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The
municipality and inhabitants living on its administrative
territory are the main decision-makers. In the assessment
of the proposed development, special attention should be paid
to:
characteristics of the object,
description and geographical characteristics of the area,
environmental state assessment,
public involvement and information,
impact assessment,
potential alternatives.
Characteristics
of the object
The
characteristics of the object includes information about the
proposed development, location of the object, as well as technological
and technical description about:
technologies to be applied,
raw materials (kind, amount),
production output (per season),
water supply (water resources, amount required, quality)
and sewage (direct and/or indirect discharge, treatment
plants- capacity, load),
heating (fuel to be used, amount),
air and water emission concentration,
waste (household and industrial, including hazardous- types,
volume, utilisation, disposal), by-products and residues
from technological processes,
physical impacts (noise, vibration, electromagnetic radiation).
Description of
the area and environmental state assessment
The description
of the area includes information about the land use aim, correspondence
of the proposed action with the physical development plan,
geographical characteristics (geological structure, relief,
climate, direction of the ruling winds, and other aspects,
which would allow to assess adequacy of the physical environment
for the realisation of the particular project), economic and
social environment (labour market and its qualification, demographic
structure, service field), especially important nature and
culture objects and territories. The current environmental
state assessment is needed to draw conclusions afterwards
if the particular object does not worsen the environmental
quality in the area.
Impact assessment
Impact
upon the environment can be in form of:
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changes in the terrestrial land and water ecosystems (changes
in the content of species, reduction of biological diversity),
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environmental pollution (water, air, soil),
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aesthetic changes (land use structure, different atypical
sounds and odours),
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changes in the structure of the society (demographic and
social structure), in the culture, history and life-style.
Impact
can be:
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physical and/or social and economic,
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direct and/or indirect,
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short-term and/or long-term,
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disadvantaged and/or advantaged,
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local and/or regional/national,
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renewable and/or non-renewable,
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qualitative and/or quantitative,
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real and/or imaginary,
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connected with other actions.
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